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1979. One Jar, octagonal-shaped. Racca. 

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Soft, buff paste.
Outside, turquoise-blue glaze background, coarsely crackled, and showing silvery iridescence. 
Inside, pale bluish-white glaze.
Each of the eight vertical panels are decorated on outside with uniform scroll designs in black.
The panels are divided by vertical lines of rich purple which end in a black line running around the rim.
Heavy basal ring; unglazed within.
Slight repairs.
Height, 6 3/8". Diameter at rim, 6 1/2".

Purchased from Dikran Kelekian, Paris, while on trip during the Summer of 1909, as per voucher
No. 20, July 1909, for £60., plus pkg., frt., &c. 295.00

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